Able Sentence Examples

And if so, would they be able to fit three people comfortably in the front seat?

He had an idea of how his father felt, fearing he would have to watch his little boy grow and not being able to be the provider.

Being able to discuss such things with him was as comforting as it was new.

There was some question that he might not be able to keep his own child?

On the other hand, if you abandoned the wagons and rode the mules, you might be able to keep ahead of the Indians.

And the whole thing has been unnatural because that cat and I are both able to talk your language, and to understand the words you say.

She turned to go back to the house and realized she wouldn't be able to make it before the storm caught up with her.

A Cleveland mother had reported an infant child was taken from his crib while napping yet when Howie was able to enter the location before and during the alleged time, there was no sign of the child.

I'd call him, but of course he wouldn't be able to answer!

If you don't get some sleep when you go home, you won't be able to relieve me tonight.

I want to be able to focus on solving this problem, not worrying about what might be said or done to you.

It was several more minutes before she was able to take deep breaths – even longer before she was able to utter more than a strangled sound.

"Tell us where you were," Betsy begged, hardly able to contain herself as she turned on her tape recorder.

Howie, now able to usually remain with a vehicle, stayed with the car to a suburban ranch style house only six miles from the kidnapping.

Lady luck intervened when the director removed a twenty dollar bill from his wallet for a tip for the maid and Howie was able to record the bill number.

No sound disturbed Howie and with Martha able to use her special hypnotic-like tone, little time was wasted inducing Howie's sleep state.

She's such a little fraidy cat but I shan't be able to keep her much longer.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do.

Now and then they glanced at one another, hardly able to suppress their laughter.

Granted, what we accomplished was monumental, but coming across a similar situation and duplicating what we were able to do might not occur very often.

Finally, Howie was able to connect with a recently abducted little girl in Alabama.

Howie was able to follow her to a vehicle and relate the plate number!

She recognized this trait and would accept rules she herself would never be able to make.

The vehicle was different but this time he was able to record the South Carolina license plate number.

Absent Martha's soothing voice, Howie wasn't able to drift off until our third try.

He should be able to deliver.

You're just as much a bull's eye if this monster is able to pick up your trail.

Now I'm able to adjust my method of operation accordingly.

On the record, tell the public this; you've been led to believe the psychic tipster is a woman of an age able to collect social security.

Pierre wished to say that he was ready to sacrifice his money, his serfs, or himself, only one ought to know the state of affairs in order to be able to improve it, but he was unable to speak.

He wished to sleep, but he knew he would not be able to and that most depressing thoughts came to him in bed.

Seeing that his trap would not be able to move on for some time, Alpatych got down and turned into the side street to look at the fire.

"If he manages the business properly he will be able to pay off all his debts," said the militia officer, speaking of Rostov.

Pierre listened to him, scarcely able to repress a smile.

Another prodded his horse with the butt end of a musket, and Pierre, bending over his saddlebow and hardly able to control his shying horse, galloped ahead of the soldiers where there was a free space.

Never to the end of his life could he understand goodness, beauty, or truth, or the significance of his actions which were too contrary to goodness and truth, too remote from everything human, for him ever to be able to grasp their meaning.

He felt that only in the ordinary conditions of life would he be able to understand himself and all he had seen and felt.

The hardest thing (Pierre went on thinking, or hearing, in his dream) is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all.

Those who were able to get away were going of their own accord, those who remained behind decided for themselves what they must do.

She knew that being thrown together again under such terrible circumstances they would again fall in love with one another, and that Nicholas would then not be able to marry Princess Mary as they would be within the prohibited degrees of affinity.